It is hard to read all of this, based simply on what is publicly known and excluding what special council Robert Mueller may know, without concluding that we are already in the territory where a case for impeachment can credibly be made.
Of course, these are different times.
The Republican Party is so infected with Trumpism, so fevered in its defense of him, so completely compromised by its alignment with him, that its members are not placing the well-being of the nation and fidelity to the Constitution first and foremost.
If there was ever a case for studying history, it’s the civic depredations of Donald Trump. Everybody who paid attention during Watergate has seen his schtick before. Everybody acquainted with European history of the 20th-Century — especially the ascents of Nazism and Fascism and the cowardice and moral squalor that enabled it — is unsurprised by the pious rationalizations for turning a blind eye. I’ve no doubt that the American people are sound, or that Trump will be put out. That doesn’t relieve the national disgrace of his election in the first place, and a clear knowledge of our own history would have prevented it.